Asus G1s and WoW low fps spikes!!

I'm sorry if this is mentioned somewhere else but after a few hours of searching I couldn't find any information on this new problem I'm having in world of warcraft. I've played the game fine at 60 fps ever since I got the asus g1s, but now all of sudden I get these super low fps spikes - like at 2fps and it goes for like 1min before returning to normal for another 2 min and then repaeating again and agiain. I've tried updating the driver, the sound card driver, and the bios - and after this now I get this wave of low fps spikes - like one second at 60 the next at 20 and it makes my screen appear to lag. I noticed before when I had those super low spikes I could hear the fans speed up every time it happened. I'm wondering if heat could be an issue - since I do leave the game on for long periods of time. But this happens alot anytime and anywhere. There are post on WoW forums about this but absolutely no solutions. This problem has rendered WoW completely unplayable for me. Please anyone out there know if theres something I can do - I'm currently trying every Nvidia driver for the 8600m gt on laptopvideo2go.com.

 

Check your cpu/gpu temps and clean out your fans and heatsinks of dust.

Since it was fine before, and this problem only started recently, I'll bet you that your components are overheating and downclocking due to excessive dust in your fans.

 

In addition, since it was fine until recently, perhaps you may want to defrag your hard drive, do a virus scan, etc. in case there is adware, spyware or something that is using alot of processes or RAM.

 

i want to ask, did u get that low fps when u play hyjal raid, or just normal condition?
cause i got old version Asus, but when i play wow, its perfect fine
even in hyjal, i stil can get 15 fps at least, but a little laggy^^

 

Playing on Vista? I had a severe problem with WoW on my C90 and it ended up being a Vista thing that I had to fix by manually turning off a Vista feature via an elevated command prompt.

I forget the command right now but I will look it up if you think that its your problem.


Edit: nevermind your having FPS issues I thought it was latency, I'll leave the post here tho incase somebody is having latency issues so they can find the answer.

 

Well I don't want to open my computer to clean it and I'll try to defrag and all that, but I just tried a new driver and I got instant blue screen everytime I try opening wow only. I also noticed I've been getting more blue screens with the lag spikes - and yes it happens anywhere - in bgs, arena, towns. I'm going back to the original driver from the asus website but its gonna take an hour to download from them . I really think this is a driver problem - since I've been changing it and I get different results every time I run wow. My asus g1s is barely 8months old so I don't see how dust and overheating can be an issue - but I'll check that after drivers don't make a difference.

 

it should not be the dust problem
i had a asus laptop for 1 and half year
it stil perfectly runs about wow
but maybe there is something to do with vista or graphic drive
but my guild mates runs wow with vista as wel, they r perfectly fine

 

The stock driver is also on the CD so maybe you don't need to download.

Make sure to use DriverCleanerPro in between driver installations.

Post back if stock drivers don't fix the issue.

 

You'd be surprised, especially if you live in a dusty environment. My computer after 6 months had a 1/5th of an inch thick carpet of dust completely covering the heatsink.

 

So apparently the drivers from laptopvideo2go are impossible to uninstall even with driver cleaner pro - as soon as I reboot after uninstallation vista automatically installs another driver or something is left behind. I downloaded the old driver off of the asus g1s site and it seems to wipe the old driver out completely automatically for me. I've only been able to play wow for a few hours - but I haven't seen any lag spikes with the asus website driver. Its just weird that a newer driver that I've used for a few months perfectly just all of sudden starts having problems.